Without the Hardware, With Homebrew Package Manager Installed, You Can Run Raspberry Pi Emulation on OS X or Can Run Raspberry Pi Virtual Appliance. Clearly - both methods are different. Like, in case of Android, we ran Virtual Appliance of Android on OS X. Virtual Appliance has nothing to do with Homebrew Package Manager. You will need VirtualBox like Software. We have named the guide as … [Read more...]
Operating System Level Virtualization
Operating System Level Virtualization is Commonly Known as Container Based Virtualization. Docker is a Common Example. Basics Has Benn Discussed in this Article. Actually, we have talked about container based virtualization, Docker like topics before. Many questions are asked around Operating System Level Virtualization via Contact Us Page or over the social networks. We are trying to explain the … [Read more...]
Run VirtualBox on Ubuntu 14.04 Cloud Server Instance
Run VirtualBox on Ubuntu 14.04 Cloud Server Instance - Yeah, Virtualization within Virtualization! It is actually possible to install and run. When we run virtual machines with VirtualBox on computer, normally we use the VirtualBox GUI to manage the virtual machines - like we shown in the guide to run Ubuntu on MacBook Pro. but a server does not have a desktop environment unless we specifically … [Read more...]
HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM)
HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is a process virtual machine developed by Facebook, serves as an execution engine for PHP, based on JIT. HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is an Open Source Software like PHP. We can install HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) on the top of Nginx Web Server Software, that is the basic importance to know about HipHop Virtual Machine. HipHop for PHP (HPHPc) was also developed by … [Read more...]
Docker and Virtualization
Docker is not a complete virtualization technology, but has features that, if developed; could compete in hypervisor such as VMware. When we talk about virtualization, always we include the classic examples of hypervisors such as VMware and Hyper-V and, although less frequently; technologies like Xen and KVM. In this list of virtualization technologies, almost never include Docker and the … [Read more...]
What is GlusterFS?
GlusterFS is a distributed file system, the memory elements are presented as a single file system from a plurality of servers or nodes. The various servers even nodes, form a client-server architecture over TCP / IP. A distinctive feature from NAS systems is that, a redundant connection of storage devices over TCP / IP is possible. The data on all the cluster nodes can be read and written at the … [Read more...]
What is Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
Hardware Assisted Virtualization is also known as native virtualization. This is an approach to full virtualization in extended condition, wherein the processor provides the architectural support to facilitate the construction and the hypervisor forward calls of different guest operating system directly to the physical hardware, increasing the overall performance of the system. Xen hypervisor, … [Read more...]
What is VirtFS or Jailed Shell?
Jailed Shell or VirtFS is a paravirtualized filesystem based on the VirtIO framework often used by Shared Servers to protect the other users. We talked briefly about paravirtualization, KVM here is Kernel Based Virtual Machine (there is another KVM - which is a switch), SSH to Shared Hosting Server etcetera topics. Jailed Shell is a wider topic which includes a rightly defined, protocol based … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing in Small Business : Outlook
Cloud Computing in Small Business such as ERP, also shows expected competitive advantages through cloud until the competitor has implemented a similar model. This article is an outlook based on our previous three articles - Strategic Requirements for Including Cloud computing for Small Businesses, Opportunities and Risks of Cloud Computing for Small Business and Use of Cloud Computing in Small … [Read more...]
Sandbox in Computer Security
Sandbox allows the execution of software(s) with less risk to the operating system. These are often used to execute untested code of dubious origin. We talked about Advanced Persistent Threats or APT in an older article, also we mentioned we use Sandbox mode to check them. The term Sandbox is also used in a broader sense to refer to a test environment for software or websites - we are not talking … [Read more...]
Published Desktop Vs. Virtual Desktop : Comparison of Desktop Virtualization
Published Desktop Vs. Virtual Desktop will be compared using a cost-benefit analysis and to conclude with an analysis to investigate the results obtained. Through consolidation of virtualization and server environments, now people are looking for a way to virtualize desktops. The requirement for a virtual desktop depends on who is using or how this is to be used, due to the different approaches … [Read more...]